“Then, to sit so close to Cohen, watching him give lie after lie — would you believe what he actually said? He would not have accepted a pardon from Donald Trump after he had previously said he would do anything to avoid prison. He would, essentially, he would lie, he would cheat, he would do anything to avoid prison — but ‘I won’t accept the pardon from Donald Trump,’”
“If you believe that, I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. There [were] so many lies! And then, failure to allow a full testimony from the expert when the other side was allowed to introduce letters saying — that the jury will believe it, as Jonathan correctly said — that it was illegal. ‘It was illegal! It was illegal!’ This expert was gonna come in and rebut that. This judge has committed more reversible errors in the one day I was in the courtroom than I’ve seen in years and years of practicing law.”
In Nazi Germany:
People’s Court judge, Roland Freisler didn’t allow the Defendant to actually have any defense.
Why waste time with things that didn’t matter?
So, here we are.
posted on 5/20/2024, 4:01:00 PM by ClearCase_guy
That sounds exactly like what Judge Denise Lind did to Lt Col Terry Lakin in his court-martial.
You would think the military would know better. But then, Lind ruled that foreign combat orders don’t have to be ordered by the Commander-in-Chief in order to be lawful, even though the Authorization to use Force put the decisions in the sole discretion of the Commander-in-Chief. Who knew that American forces could be ordered to foreign combat operations without the consent of either Congress or their appointed legally-authorized representative, the Commander-in-Chief?
That whole decision was so that Lind could refuse Lakin his only defense, which was that he disobeyed orders because he had no way to know whether they were authorized by a Constitutional Commander-in-Chief as required by both the Constitution and the Authorization to Use Force.
She denied him any defense. Just like Freisler.